On 8/20/2010 11:07 PM, Andrew Greimann wrote:
Hello. I had a question, after reading through the CDDL. If I wanted to make a
distro/respin, (and this is only out of sheer curiousity), would all the
OpenSolaris source have to be downloaded with it, or would it only have to be
anything built or modified upon? I've read what it says on programs--I'm hoping
this doesn't mean to download code for the whole OS, if one were to do this!
Honestly wondering. :)
You need to make available the source to ANY binary you distribute, if
that binary's source code was covered by the CDDL. Now, you
*personally* don't have to provide the source code - for unmodified
stuff, it's perfectly OK to point to another resource (say the
OpenSolaris repo), and say: I build this binary using those sources.
The only issue here is that if that other repository ever goes away, you
have to find some other method (up to, and including, doing it yourself)
to provide the source code.
This is the same with all Open Source programs; regardless of whether
you wrote or modified or merely built the program, if you distribute the
binary, then you have to provide the source if asked. The mechanism by
which you make the source available is up to you.
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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